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'''divinity''' (countable and uncountable; plural divinities)

'''divinity''' (countable and uncountable; plural divinities)

*1. (uncountable) The property of being divine, of being like a god or God.

*1. (uncountable) The property of being [[divine]], of being like a god or [[God]].

*2. (countable) A deity (a god, goddess or God).

*2. (countable) A [[deity]] (a god, goddess or God).

*3. (uncountable) The study of religion or religions.

*3. (uncountable) The study of [[religion]] or religions.

'''Etymology'''

<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Divinity''''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Divinity '''''this link'''''].</center>

Latin divinitas [http://www.preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/Hymni/AeternaLux.html]

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'''Divinity''' is the characteristic, unifying, and co-ordinating quality of Deity.

'''Divinity''' is the characteristic, unifying, and co-ordinating [[quality]] of Deity.

Divinity is creature comprehensible as [[truth]], [[beauty]], and [[goodness]]; correlated in [[personality]] as love, mercy, and ministry; disclosed on impersonal levels as [[justice]], [[power]], and [[sovereignty]].

Divinity is creature comprehensible as [[truth]], [[beauty]], and [[goodness]]; correlated in [[personality]] as [[love]], [[mercy]], and ministry; disclosed on impersonal levels as [[justice]], [[power]], and [[sovereignty]].

Divinity may be perfect--complete--as on existential and creator levels of Paradise perfection; it may be imperfect, as on experiential and creature levels of time-space evolution; or it may be relative, neither perfect nor imperfect, as on certain Havona levels of existential-experiential relationships.

Divinity may be perfect--complete--as on existential and creator levels of Paradise perfection; it may be imperfect, as on experiential and creature levels of [[spacetime|time-space]] evolution; or it may be [[relative]], neither perfect nor imperfect, as on certain [[Havona]] levels of existential-experiential relationships.

When we attempt to conceive of perfection in all phases and forms of relativity, we encounter seven conceivable types:

When we attempt to conceive of perfection in all phases and forms of relativity, we encounter seven conceivable types:

*6. Absolute perfection in no phase, relative in some, imperfect in others.

*6. Absolute perfection in no phase, relative in some, imperfect in others.

*7. Absolute perfection in no attribute, imperfection in all. [http://mercy.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/foreword.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/foreword.html&line=84#mfs]

*7. Absolute perfection in no attribute, imperfection in all. ([[0:1|0:1.18]])

 

'''''[[Divine]]''''' [[qualities]] are [[perfectly]] and [[absolutely]] [[unified]] in [[God]]. And every God-knowing [[man]] or angel [[possesses]] the [[potential]] of unlimited [[self]]-[[expression]] on ever-[[progressive]] [[levels]] of [[unified]] [[self-realization]] by the [[technique]] of the never-ending [[achievement]] of Godlikeness—the [[experiential]] blending in the [[evolutionary]] [[experience]] of [[eternal]] [[truth]], [[universal]] [[beauty]], and [[divine]] [[goodness]].[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=44:7]

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